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Album Of The Day: Feedback by Derek Webb

Album Art of Derek Webb's Feedback album - A grid of 9 different squares, each one has some sort of modern art in it. Most of them seem to be lines that are vertical and some squares, and most in the orange, yellow or levels of gray colors, with a bit of pink or purple in there.

Released 15 years ago today, this is Derek Webb's sixth solo, studio album and his only instrumental album. This recording is 37 minutes of instrumental, electronic music built as a reflection on The Lord's Prayer from The Bible. It's sometimes slow and sometimes fast, sometimes lots of electronic elements at once, and sometimes just quiet piano or acoustic guitar. The physical CD package also includes with it modern art prints for each track by painter Scott Erickson and photographer Jeremy Cowart to make the whole album presentation much more than just an audio recording. When I'm looking for some instrumental music, I do enjoy this album and listen to it regularly.

Release Year: 2010
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Album Of The Day: Instruments Of Mercy by Beautiful Eulogy

Album Art of Beautiful Eulogy's Instruments Of Mercy album - On a light brown background that looks like some sort of rough paper or wood particle board, a double hairline border is around the edges. In the middle of the cover, it says the album title, 'Instruments' and 'Of' in pretty small text, with 'MERCY' being very large and not actually a font, but instruments and other musical accessories illustrated in the shape of the letters. Below that, in small text, is the group name.

Released 12 years ago this past Wednesday, this is the second album by Beautiful Eulogy, a collective of Portland, Oregon-based rap/hip-hop artists. Braille, Odd Thomas, and Courtland Urbano have decades of experience in underground/independent hip-hop, but they also are involved in their churches. Beautiful Eulogy is them mixing those worlds, creating a hip-hop album that draws heavily on the influences of folk music and hymns to be kinda a hip-hop/worship album. I love that many of the sounds in the mix of this album are sounds of nature mixed in with instruments, and I'm pretty sure some of the elements sound like beeps and bloops from programming, but they might be human voices making those noises and being sampled instead. Friends of the group like Propaganda, Jackie Hill Perry and Josh White also lend their musical talents on a few tracks. I love what the Beautiful Eulogy crew did on this album and their other two albums, and you should check it out.

Release Year: 2013
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